MiKTeX News

MiKTeX on Windows 7/8 deprecation

01/20/2023 11:42:12

Future MiKTeX versions will not run on legacy Windows platforms. For this reason, it is necessary to [...]

MiKTeX 32-bit end-of-life

07/30/2022 13:06:09

MiKTeX 32-bit support has ended which means: no future updates of the MiKTeX 32-bit binaries. Also s [...]

MiKTeX 22.3

03/17/2022 17:25:37

MiKTeX 22.3 has been released on March 14, 2022. HiTeX MiKTeX now includes the HiTeX engine. Upgrade [...]

MiKTeX 22.1

02/05/2022 10:27:57

MiKTeX 22.1 has been released on January 31, 2022. Fixed issues 995: Support for Fedora 35 1022: ex [...]

Log4j status

12/26/2021 11:58:19

Here is a knowledge base article which describes the MiKTeX log4j status: Log4j vulnerability CVE-20 [...]

MiKTeX 21.12

12/07/2021 16:36:08

MiKTeX 21.12 has been released on December 7, 2021. (e-)(u)pTeX MiKTeX now includes the four TeX eng [...]

MiKTeX 21.8

08/11/2021 11:16:39

MiKTeX 21.8 has been released on August 6, 2021. Documentation browser MiKTeX Console now provides a [...]

MiKTeX 21.7

07/19/2021 17:38:53

MiKTeX 21.7 has been released on July 19, 2021. Upgraded programs dvipdfmx 20210609 pdftex 1.40.23 [...]

MiKTeX 21.6.28

06/27/2021 20:47:28

MiKTeX 21.6.28 has been released on June 28, 2021. Breaking changes Common TEXMF root directories in [...]

Companion packages (doc/source)

06/07/2021 11:09:54

MiKTeX packages are being rearranged: documentation and source files are transferred into separate & [...]

MiKTeX 21.6

06/07/2021 09:34:02

MiKTeX 21.6 has been released on June 7, 2021. Breaking changes Non-secure package repository URLs ( [...]

MiKTeX 21.3

03/25/2021 09:43:29

MiKTeX 21.3 has been released on March 22, 2021. Upgraded programs axohelp 1.4 dvipdfmx 20210318 gr [...]

MiKTeX 21.2

02/22/2021 12:31:08

MiKTeX 21.2 has been released on February 22, 2021. MiKTeX Console Simplified Chinese translation Th [...]

MiKTeX 21.1

01/19/2021 11:58:02

MiKTeX 21.1 has been released on January 18, 2021. MiKTeX Console German translation MiKTeX Console [...]

GitHub Discussions

12/21/2020 20:44:03

GitHub is rolling out a new feature called “Discussions”. I have enabled it for the MiKTeX project. [...]

MiKTeX 20.12

12/15/2020 17:22:10

MiKTeX 20.12 has been released on December 14, 2020. Breaking changes Options --disable-pipes and -- [...]

MiKTeX 20.11

11/02/2020 11:36:10

MiKTeX 20.11 has been released on November 2, 2020. Upgraded programs asymptote 2.67 axohelp 1.3 dv [...]

MiKTeX 20.10

10/12/2020 10:32:20

MiKTeX 20.10 has been released on October 12th, 2020. Fixed issues 206: store log-files of "bu [...]

MiKTeX 20.7

08/03/2020 15:44:53

MiKTeX 20.7 has been released on August 3rd, 2020. Fixed issues 576: Net Installer Crashing 581: pd [...]

MiKTeX 20.6

06/28/2020 10:08:09

MiKTeX 20.6 has been released on June 28th, 2020. New release versioning scheme The MiKTeX project h [...]

2.9.7470 -> 20.6

06/01/2020 22:07:21

I am planning to switch to a date-based versioning scheme for MiKTeX releases. This will take effect [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7440

05/13/2020 09:54:42

MiKTeX 2.9.7420 as been released on May 17, 2020. Breaking changes Removal of Omega 1.15 Omega 1.15 [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7400

04/29/2020 12:06:39

MiKTeX 2.9.7400 has been released on April 26, 2020. Fixed issues 312: MiKTeX Setup Wizard ignores [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7350

03/22/2020 19:45:25

MiKTeX 2.9.7350 has been released on March 22, 2020. lualatex: switching engine from LuaTeX to LuaHB [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7300

02/06/2020 11:38:12

MiKTeX 2.9.7300 has been released on February 17, 2020. Group-delimited \input argument MiKTeX adopt [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7250

11/17/2019 11:51:11

MiKTeX 2.9.7250 was released on November 17, 2019. New programs LuaHBTeX 1.11.2 Upgraded programs [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7230

10/26/2019 11:49:59

MiKTeX 2.9.7230 was released on October 26, 2019. Fixed macOS build issues. [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7200

10/22/2019 11:48:07

MiKTeX 2.9.7200 was released on October 22, 2019. Breaking changes Windows: text files with UNIX lin [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7140

08/01/2019 11:47:21

MiKTeX 2.9.7140 was released on August 1, 2019. New programs harftex: new TeX enginge with embedded [...]

Discontinuation of MiKTeX Portable SFX

05/30/2019 10:41:15

Development of the MiKTeX Portable self-extracting archive will not be continued. So far, the MiKTeX [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7050

05/29/2019 11:45:29

MiKTeX 2.9.7050 was released on May 29, 2019. Breaking changes --c-style-errors does not imply \scro [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.7000

04/10/2019 11:44:14

MiKTeX 2.9.7000 was released on April 10, 2019. Upgraded programs dvipdfmx 20190225 dvipng 1.16 dvi [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6980

02/10/2019 11:41:59

MiKTeX 2.9.6980 was released on February 10, 2019. Fixed issues 254: biber: missing on Ubuntu and M [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6960

02/03/2019 11:36:20

MiKTeX 2.9.6960 has been released on February 3, 2019. Upgraded programs dvipdfmx 20190127 dvisvgm [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6930

01/09/2019 10:24:02

MiKTeX 2.9.6930 has been released on January 6, 2019. Release notes Resetting personal MiKTeX config [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6880

11/12/2018 15:24:01

MiKTeX 2.9.6880 is an intermediate release for Windows. It features LuaTeX 1.09 and Dvisvgm 2.6. [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6840

09/30/2018 11:12:51

MiKTeX 2.9.6840 has been released on September 30, 2018. Release notes Fixed security issues CVE-201 [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6800

08/28/2018 00:00:00

MiKTeX 2.9.6800 has been released on August 27, 2018. Release notes Fedora 28 & openSUSE Leap 15 [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6730

06/27/2018 00:00:00

MiKTeX 2.9.6730 has been released on June 26, 2018. Release notes OS X El Capitan & macOS Sierra [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6700

05/22/2018 00:00:00

MiKTeX 2.9.6700 has been released on May 21, 2018. Release notes Ubuntu 18.04 & Debian 9 MiKTeX [...]

MiKTeX Console is meant to replace old MFC applications

04/18/2018 15:36:36

MiKTeX Console is now the tool of choice for most MiKTeX maintenance tasks. The classic MiKTeX deskt [...]

MiKTeX-Asymptote 2.44 now supports 3D rendering

04/18/2018 11:41:40

MiKTeX for Windows now includes GLUT, an OpenGL utility toolkit. This addition enables 3D rendering [...]

LuaTeX 1.07.0 with Lua 5.3 (option)

01/29/2018 19:33:42

LuaTeX 1.07.0 is now available in the MiKTeX distribution. It comes in two variants: the classic Lu [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6500

10/29/2017 18:48:27

MiKTeX 2.9.6500 is a binary release which brings the following changes: Upgraded programs dvipdfmx [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6400

07/31/2017 16:09:04

MiKTeX 2.9.6400 was released on July 31, 2017. It is a binary release which brings the following cha [...]

MiKTeX 2.9.6350

05/29/2017 09:43:53

MiKTeX 2.9.6350 was released on May 28, 2017. It is a binary release which brings the following chan [...]

LuaTeX 1.0.0

09/29/2016 16:55:48

LuaTeX 1.0.0 has been released and is now available in the MiKTeX "Next" repository. The r [...]

Major MiKTeX update on the way

12/08/2015 09:50:01

The next MiKTeX update will be a major one. The executables have been rebuilt and some 3rd party com [...]

Install MiKTeX using the command line

07/06/2015 00:00:00

I am pleased to announce availability of the MiKTeX Setup Utility. The MiKTeX Setup Utility is used [...]

The future of MiKTeX 2.9

10/25/2014 11:07:22

Inspired by a thread on the MiKTeX mailing list, I would like to outline the future of MiKTeX 2.9. M [...]